Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Walkowitz, Daniel J. (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 255-264

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch22

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

spatialized urban culture ‐ New York's Duane Hall, “distinctive” culture with class signifiers , urban choreographies ‐ dance and politics of space , dance, closely aligned with social spaces , contemporary urban recreational folk dance communities ‐ English Country Dance (ECD), now thriving in New York but languishing in London , “decline” of ECD in England ‐ impact of Second Folk Revival, from US to England, reversing the flow , social and moral language of early dance revivalists ‐ echoed in sentiments of recreational ECD enthusiasts , “Whiteness” changing, not obliterating ‐ exclusionary politics of race nor politics of space , music, dance, and urban geography relationship ‐ history of ECD, as a cultural practice , ECD, dance form and in its music ‐ social and political messages, cultural meaning of ECD spatialized , Second World War, changes ‐ to repertoire and dance community